about
This blog is a post-show discussion. It’s a place to keep the conversation going.
We’ll probably figure out what this blog really is as we go along - it may be an archive of the discussions we have after selected performances, it may be a source of inspiration for discussion topics, it may be a community of artists and audience members who want to explore the artistic world of a single playwright over the course of a single season.
If you’d like to share your ideas or feedback, or if you have questions, leave a comment or send us an email.
And let’s have some fun seeing where this goes.
About the bloggers
nat is Nathaniel Swift, Eclipse Artistic Director and ensemble member since 1999. Since then, I have directed (The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Brutality of Fact, 2), acted (Boy Gets Girl, Talley and Son, Come Blow Your Horn, A Woman Without a Name, Confessional), designed lights (Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Rimers of Eldritch, Frame 312, Lost in Yonkers, Women and Water . . . . . .) and produced (Sextet, 2 by Pearl, Bourbon at the Border) with Eclipse. I’m currently designing lights for Candles to the Sun.
Sarah is Sarah Moeller. She has stage managed, designed props, directed and dramaturged for Eclipse. Outside of Eclipse she works as a dramaturg for Lookingglass and a director, dramaturg, production manager and stage manager for Collaboraction, where she is an artistic associate. Recently she was the dramaturg for Bourbon at the Border for Eclipse, and No Child for Lookingglass. Currently she’s dramaturging Candles to the Sun.
Rebecca is Rebecca Prescott. She is a native Idahoan and is delighted to be playing another Tennessee Williams heroine - Star Pilcher in Candles to the Sun. She has previously appeared as Woman in the World Premier of Tennessee Williams’ one act play The Pink Bedroom and Clair in Something Cloudy Something Clear. Rebecca has played roles onstage ranging from Desdemona in Othello with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and The Governess in The Turn of the Screw with Sierra Repertory Theatre to Yum-Yum in The Mikado and Low-Dive Jenny in The Threepenny Opera with American Opera Group. Most recently she has filled understudy duties for Chicago Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Troilus and Cressida. Rebecca is a company member of VOX 3 and she once interned in Senator Larry Craig’s Idaho office during a semester of her undergrad schooling. ALDA
“Kerry” is Kerry Richlan, a Chicago actress who has had the privilege of appearing in Eclipse Theatre’s productions of Landscape of the Body, Big Time, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball and, now, Spinning Into Butter. Some of the other local theatres she has worked with include Victory Gardens, Collaboraction, Strawdog, Circle Theatre and Profiles Theatre. She is a theatre graduate of Northwestern University and studied at the British American Drama Academy.
Gary is Gary Simmers, a former Eclipse company member who appeared in Confessional, Watch on the Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, Landscape of the Body, Frame 312, Talley and Son, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, and Boy Gets Girl, and designed sound for Suddenly Last Summer and Come Blow Your Horn.
Gerardo is Gerardo Cardenas. He was born and raised on Chicago’s South Side. He attended Loyola Univ. in Chicago and has been acting professionally since 1999. Previously, he’s worked with Teatro Vista and Chicago Scriptworks. He is glad to have had the opportunity to work with Eclipse on Spinning Into Butter.
